Hello and welcome to super great kids' stories,

wise tales from storytellers around the world,

which will make you laugh and sometimes cry.

Recommended for ages 5 to 105. I'm Kim and I love stories.

Hello super great kids and how are you? I hope you're enjoying this beautiful spring

which is unfurling towards summer. Everywhere little flowers and green shoots are appearing

out of the ground and reaching for the sky. So for the next few weeks we're going to have some

stories about nature and gardens and growing things. To kick off this week we've got

Jason Buck telling the story of the enormous turnip. Jason is the storyteller who tells stories

making amazing noises using just his mouth. This story comes from Russia nearly 200 years ago

when a man called Alexander Affanasiev collected tales from local people just like the Grimm's

brothers did in Germany. He's also very well known for collecting the story, the frog princess

or princess Frankie and the frog as we know it on super great kids' stories and he collected the

Babayaga story Vasiliya the beautiful. Today's story is a chain story a bit like the gingerbread

man or the old woman and the pig. Before we begin the enormous turnip I wonder if you like vegetables.

Here's a challenge for you. I'm not going to tell you to eat lots of vegetables but I want to know

how many vegetables you can rattle off from memory. Go on have a go while we have a quick word

with the grownups. Hello super great Kim. Hello super great David. Kim I have a question. I love

questions far away. What is the best kind of story? Well I think the best kind of story is an old

story which has been told for many years and passed on from person to person. Oh that's a good

answer. I thought you're going to say something specific like only Babayaga stories or a Nancy

stories or stories that have to have two headed giants in them. No just a story which has been loved

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